Brand: Papo

Review: Parasaurolophus (Papo)

Genus: Parasaurolophus Brand: Papo Classification: Hadrosaur, Ornithopod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.6 (23 votes)

Until the release of their Allosaurus, Papo’s prehistorics garnered attention mainly for being remarkable facsimiles of their Jurassic Park counterparts. However, even before Papo’s own Big Al hit the scene the company had released a sculpt not obviously based on a JP creature – this often-overlooked Parasaurolophus (dated 2005) at about 1:35 scale.

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Review: Tyrannosaurus rex (Papo)

Genus: Tyrannosaurus Brand: Papo Classification: Theropod, Tyrannosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.6 (24 votes)

Review by megaraptor1000, photos by dinotoyforum
Papo has produced some stunning, if inaccurate, toys in their short time in the model dinosaur industry. Today I will be reviewing one of their larger pieces, the Tyrannosaurus rex. I apologize in advance to Jurassic Park worshipers for bashing their little Rex, I don’t hate him, I am just a bit critical.

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Review: Steppe Mammoth (Papo)

Genus: M. trogontherii, Mammuthus, Steppe Mammoth Brand: Papo Classification: Elephant, Mammal Age: Pleistocene Type: Figurine

4.2 (14 votes)

Review and photographs by ‘Bucketfoot-Al’. Edited by Plesiosauria.
Papo has produced some excellent prehistoric toy dinosaur figures recently as you undoubtedly know – not always accurate but always 100% high quality, with remarkable detail. But this review is about one of their discontinued figures from our more recent past.

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Review: Spinosaurus (Papo)

Genus: Spinosaurus Brand: Papo Classification: Spinosaur, Theropod Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

3.2 (29 votes)

Today we will be thoroughly looking over the Papo Spinosaurus– He is quite well loved in the dinosaur and Jurassic park communities, so I hope I don’t dampen spirits too much with my somewhat critical review. As for Spinosaurus itself, it was an extremely large theropod dinosaur that lived in northern Africa about 100 million years ago.

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Review: Allosaurus (Papo) (Review)

Genus: Allosaurus Brand: Papo Classification: Allosaur, Theropod Age: Jurassic Type: Figurine

4.3 (39 votes)

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Back in January 2008, the Dinosaur Toy Blog announced the unveiling of Papo’s latest addition to their dinosaur line (here). Well, it’s finally for sale so I’ve had the opportunity to review the figure in more detail and provide some detailed photographs.

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Review: Pteranodon (Papo)

Genus: Pteranodon Brand: Papo Classification: Pterosaur Age: Cretaceous Type: Figurine

2.9 (27 votes)

This figure is obviously based on the pterosaurs in Jurassic park 3 and, most egregiously, the creature has teeth. Interestingly, and pertinent to the very nature of this blog, there is an interesting story relevant to this figure…

Many cheap dinosaurs (known as ‘Chinasaurs’ in the dinosaur toy collecting community because they are typically manufactured there) have a habit of adding vicious teeth to each and every species of prehistoric creature, predatory stegosaurs and triceratops abound for example, and Pteranodons; the name means ‘winged and (ironically) toothless’, with a ferocious maw.

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News: Allosaurus (Papo) (new for 2008)

News Category: Upcoming Releases Brand: Papo

3.6 (26 votes)

EDIT – October 2008- The Papo Allosaurus is now available here.
And full review of this figure is featured here
The latest in Papo’s line of detailed prehistoric creature figures was unveiled today in their 2008 Catalogue. The new addition is a super-cool Allosaurus and it is remarkable for plenty of reasons.

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